India has won the toss at Lord's following delay due to an early morning drizzle.
Skipper Dhoni has opted to bowl against England. Suresh Raina gets a batting place which means Yuvraj Singh has been relegated to 12th man.
India's seam attack comprises Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma and Praveen Kumar.
Rain had delayed the scheduled 10:30am local time (0930GMT) toss, just when the umpires were due to carry out a pitch inspection.
This fixture, the first in a four-Test series, was the 2,000th Test of all-time and the 100th between England and India.